The JOY of photographing my work

So... Earlier today, as I was editing some photos, I was thinking that I'd like to post (here on my blog) about the JOY of taking photos of my work... *Sarcastically* speaking, at first, then realizing that it really *IS* getting more and more *joyful* (and I'm also trying to be positive.) I'm learning a lot about the process of posting photographs (and taking them!!) lately... Especially with a few "lessons" learned from mistakes (um, I mean "Learning Experiences" which is more *positive,* right??)

A few weeks ago, I went outside to take photos of my work. The COLOR in the photos taken outside can be wonderfully authentic, almost effortlessly. Of course, one must get out there during the daylight, at certain times of the day, and during ideal weather, which can be tricky to coordinate. Overall, things were going good. Better, at least. The process was becoming more JOYFUL and I was starting to have more fun with it all (including the editing process, and all the steps involved.)

Took some more photos, this time in the house again. At the photo station (with all the bright lights,) and in my studio (with a lot of lights as well.) Edited them, etc.

Then, hmmm... I realized that the color in the photos seemed REALLY "off" compared to previous photos. This was strange. I didn't understand it. Just when I was starting to embrace this whole "photo" process with more JOY, the photos were looking terrible in color!!!!!! I was really feeling not-so joyful then.

So, I mentioned this to Chris, and asked if he could help me more. Maybe we could just START OVER, because there was obviously SOMETHING wrong here!!

He said, (almost immediately,) maybe it's a setting. "A setting?" I asked, "What do you mean?" "The setting on the camera," he said... And, sure enough, that was it!!!!!!!!!!

When I had gone outside, I had put it on "macro" because I can use that in the natural light, but inside, I should have switched it back to the setting that works with the inside lights. Ahhhh... That makes sense!! (I was delighted that it could be "fixed" so easily, and I felt some joy returning to my photographic spirit. Thanks, Chris!!)

So, now, I've taken more photos in the house, at the photo station, with the camera on the designated setting for that, and I'm finding more and more JOY again in the process of it all. (Of course, I want to speed things up now with the process, because I have much more to photograph!!) And, I'm looking forward to learning more, and becoming more comfortable with the whole process of digital photographs.

***Fast forward to a few hours later, when I sat down here (at my desk computer,) to type this post (with the story above already in my mind to type...)

And I wanted to post a few photos here from the ones I was editing earlier today. I couldn't find them in my Dropbox folder, which seemed strange. Hmmm... where were they??

Then I figured it out (without even mentioning it to Chris yet!!) When I was at the computer at the photo station earlier today, I had exported each image that I wanted to post. However, I was so excited about the whole process of JOY in photos again, that I must've forgotten to actually copy the files to my Dropbox folder (which would make them, of course, unavailable at another computer, since that's an on-line storage place.)

And I took a deep breath, and sighed... So many details to remember...

So---that is why this post has NO photo at the top. And that is the very

I'm gonna get back to my drawing table now... I feel MUCH more JOY there...

Capturing-ly yours,

Dawn

P.S. Note: Dropbox is an online file storage place to keep, and share, documents and photos. It's great!! If you want more info, I'll refer you to my IT guy--Chris